feþa

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.θɑ/, [ˈfeː.ðɑ]

Noun

fēþa m

1. an infantry
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Þǣr wæs Persa X M ofslæġen ġehorsedra, ⁊ eahtatiġ M fēþena, ⁊ eahtatiġ M ġefangenra.

     There, 10,000 Persian cavalry were slain, and 80,000 infantry, and 80,000 were captured.

2. troop, company, host of soldiers
3. battle

Declension

Declension of fēþa (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fēþa	fēþan
accusative	fēþan	fēþan
genitive	fēþan	fēþena
dative	fēþan	fēþum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “féða”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.